Kevin Durant was so excited to learn he had just won the NBA Rookie of the Year award, he went back to sleep. That's what seven months and 82 games -- more than double the amount the lanky 19-year-old had played in any previous season -- can do to a teenager.

Kevin Durant became the first Seattle player to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award -- and perhaps the last. Durant, the national college player of the year at Texas and the No. 2 pick last year, averaged 20.3 points for the SuperSonics.

Seattle SuperSonics star Kevin Durant has been named NBA rookie of the year. The 19-year-old is the first Seattle player to win the award. He joins a legacy that includes Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

Former Seattle SuperSonics owner Howard Schultz has filed a lawsuit to undo his sale of the team to an Oklahoma City-based group led by Clay Bennett, saying Bennett lied to him by promising to keep the NBA franchise in Seattle.

Those "Save our Sonics!" chants are now desperate pleas. When NBA owners overwhelmingly approved the SuperSonics' move to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season Friday -- provided the team can settle its lawsuit with its hometown for the last 41 years -- pain finally joined anger in Seattle.

NBA owners approved the Seattle SuperSonics' move to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season Friday, pending the resolution of litigation between the team and the city of Seattle. The Sonics could begin playing in owner Clay Bennett's hometown as early as next season if they can get out of the remaining two years of their lease at Key Arena.